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Jim Balsillie has pledged to move the team to Southern Ontario if he is allowed to purchase the franchise.
While the idea of moving the team back to Canada is a good one, and Hamilton is a great place for an NHL team, we feel that Winnipeg is the true home of the team.
If the team is going to be moved to Canada it should be moved to Winnipeg and renamed the Jets.
Judge rejects Balsillie's bid to move Coyotes
From CTV.ca:
A bankruptcy judge has rejected Jim Balsillie's bid to relocate the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton, but the Canadian billionaire is not giving up.
Arizona bankruptcy judge Redfield Baum said the possibility of the team's relocation presented significant issues for the court.
"There are no reported bankruptcy court decisions ordering a relocation of the magnitude proposed here," he said.
Baum also said the issue of a relocation fee -- in which Balsillie would have to pay millions of dollars to the NHL for the right to move the Coyotes to Ontario -- had not been resolved.
Finally, he said the court "is unconvinced that it should order that the NHL must decide the relocation application to meet the June 29th deadline." Balsillie had set that deadline for his $212.5-million offer to expire.
A spokesperson for Balsillie, Bill Walker, said his client was still seeking to bring a seventh NHL team to Canada.
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Winnipeg is a great hockey city that gives its current AHL team the Manitoba Moose tremendous fan support. I can't believe the Jets left to play in Phoenix of all places.